On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:26 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The worst part is that I had actually *checked* that it was correctly > plugged in. Only later did I go back and recheck (it was somewhat > awkward to get at and see properly). It gets difficult the more gear you have. Cables get twisted around, and you look at the wrong ends, thinking something is plugged in where something else really is. Working in A/V production it's not uncommon to have some twenty cables going into gear, and 'tis a right pain to sort out which cable's which when they're bunched together. I tried naming things, but when you re-use a cable, the name's wrong. I tried numbering, but people expect cable one to go into socket one, and get mightily confused when it doesn't. In the end I settled for using bands of coloured electrical insulation tape on both ends of the cable (e.g. green, red, then blue tape, starting from the plug ends, inwards). You can easily find both ends of the same cable, that way, and it doesn't matter what they're connected to. Trying to untangle them doesn't work. :-\ A cable can be going around the back of the desk right near you, for just a couple of metres. But while you drag it out, it magically wraps around something on the other side of the room. They're in the same union as garden hoses. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
